In his introduction, Review editor Stephen Corey says, “Harry Crews is not merely a describer, though he is a describer par excellence, beating beautifully on Flaubert’s cracked kettle of language. Crews is also a thinker and a feeler with a keen understanding of a broad range of human beings—and with the need and will to present in his books many characters and characteristics whose existence some readers would just as soon overlook.”